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...with him. The girl's father raised a shotgun. Turmoil followed and, despite the urgings of many a citizen, the mob disarmed the sheriff, bundled Willie Kirkland into a truck, took him to Magnolia Gardens (where Sportsman Harry Payne Whitney has a shooting preserve, where the late Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna had his winter home). There they hanged him from an oak tree-16th lynching in the U. S. this year, Georgia's second in the fortnight. After shooting at the suspended body, the mob cut it down, tied it to the truck, dragged it to and around...
Even though only a Freshman in this great university, I have taken the liberty of following the advice of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, when he said: "Direct they attention to what is said. Let they understanding enter into things that are doing, and the things which do them...
...Marcus Coolidge, the Democratic senatorial nominee from Massachusetts, is running on a dripping wet platform. William Butler, however, is entering the race with a laissez-faire, evasive liquor statement which certainly does not satisfy the wets and should not please the drys. In the Era of Prosperity which carried Republican Mr. Coolidge to his second term as president of the United States and equally Republican Mr. Hoover to his first, it was very easy for the Republicans to run on platforms which "guaranteed" merely continuance of the status...
...Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley called for their nomination on an "all-green ticket" anyway, suggested that the Democratic state committee could later make substitutions for the November election. This political trick left Democratic voters cold. Instead they formed an "all-Yankee" ticket by nominating for the Senate Marcus Aurelius Coolidge, onetime mayor of Fitchburg, manufacturer of machinery, banker, no kin to Calvin Coolidge, and Joseph B. Ely of Westfield for the governorship. The spectacle of a Wet Coolidge running against a Dry Butler in November piqued state interest. Nominee Coolidge, delighted, celebrated his victory by taking his family...
Divorce Rumored. Mildred Zukor Loew (now in Reno), daughter of President Adolph Zukor of Paramount-Famous-Lasky; from Arthur M. Loew, vice president of Loew's, Inc., son of the late Film Producer Marcus Loew...